A short view of tragedy
Subtitle: it's original, excellency, and corruption. With some reflections on Shakespear, and other practitioners for the stage
By: By Mr. Rymer, servant to their Majesties.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 12024.
Publisher: Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin
Published: 1693
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Technique; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Tragedy; English drama -- History and criticism
Notes: Pages 52, 130-131, 134-135, 138-139 and 143 misnumbered 62, 126-127, 130-131, 134-135 and 139 respectively.

Includes table of contents.

Published 1692. cf. A.C. Baugh. A literary history of England.

Rymer was "uniformly hostile to the works criticized," particularly to Shakespeare's Othello. cf. Dictionary of national biography.

John Dennis replied in his "The impartial critick: or some observations upon A short view of tragedy, written by Mr. Rymer" (1693)

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12024)

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